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Teddy Roosevelt:

--- Quote ---A 17-year-old Muslim student sparked the testiest exchange and the loudest cheers and jeers at a speech by controversial U.S. conservative Ann Coulter at the University of Western Ontario Monday.

After a wide-ranging speech attacking gay rights activists, the mainstream media and the Barack Obama administration, Coulter took questions from an audience clearly divided in its support for her style of attack conservatism.

Fatima Al-Dhaher, a political science student from London, rose and spoke about comments Coulter made after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The firebrand Republican had suggested Muslim countries be invaded, their leaders killed and all Muslims converted to Christianity. She later suggested Muslims denied air travel take "flying carpets" instead.

"As a 17-year-old student of this university, Muslim, should I be converted to Christianity? Second of all, since I don't have a magic carpet, what other modes do you suggest," Al-Dhaher said to loud and sustained applause.

"I thought it was just American public schools that produced ignorant people," Coulter replied, prompting her own round of applause.

Coulter then noted many Japanese were converted to Christianity after the Second World War and "we haven't heard a peep out of them."

To shouts of "Answer the question," Coulter finally replied, "What mode of transportation? Take a camel."

"Are you going to convert her now?" another student shouted out.

"No, there are some people I just as soon not convert," Coulter retorted. Al-Dhaher, who left the session soon after, said she came to the speech because it's important to hear all sides of the political spectrum.

But Coulter disappointed.

"She just spewed all this nonsense, it was a comedic act."

Coulter did not disappoint her many fans in the crowd of 800 with either her politics or her humour. Her 45-minute speech was loosely focused on political correctness, which allowed her to attack liberals of all stripes.

Liberals constantly complain their rights are being attacked in the same way blacks' rights once were, she said.

"In America everybody wants to be black. The feminists want to be black, the illegal aliens want to be black, the gays want to be black," she said.

Yet none of the complainers have anything serious to complain about, Coulter said.

"There are only two things gay men can't do. Number one, get married to each other. Number two, throw a baseball without looking like a girl."

But her jokes often had a serious point as well. "Every Democrat in the past several election cycles that has run for president has sworn to attack gay marriage, but only Republicans get attacked for gay marriage."

Backed by the mainstream media, liberals have turned political correctness into a weapon that tries to silence people with opposing views, Coulter said.

Liberal pundits suggest Obama's race helped him win the election, but conservatives cannot do the same, she said.

Feminists blame the Conservatives for an array of ills, but turned suddenly silent when former U.S. president Bill Clinton had sex with an intern, she said.

"Political correctness has nothing to do with offending people or not offending people. It is purely about power," she said.
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http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/03/22/13322401.html

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--- Quote ---The hotheaded conservative pundit is in Ottawa today for her second stop in a three-city university tour, but before she even stepped on Canadian soil, she received a letter from the University of Ottawa provost, Francois Houle, reminding her of Canada's freedom of speech laws, which prohibit hate speech toward identifiable groups.
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http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/the-yanks/2010/03/23/ann-coulter-comes-to-ontario-to-tell-us-gay-men-throw-like-girls-can%E2%80%99t-marry/

So much for freedom of speech. :P

Real American:
Ann Coulter is awesome. Her comment about liberals using political correctness to silence conservatives is dead on.

There is nothing more annoying than liberals always pretending to be offended about dumb shit. Either they are trying to silence different views or they are the most oversensitive pussies in the world.

the ghost:

--- Quote from: Real American on March 23, 2010, 02:39:00 PM ---Ann Coulter is awesome. Her comment about liberals using political correctness to silence conservatives is dead on.

There is nothing more annoying than liberals always pretending to be offended about dumb shit. Either they are trying to silence different views or they are the most oversensitive pussies in the world.

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She is a complete idiot.  I hope she gets anally raped by a Muslim

Turf Hitta:
whoa! ann coulter said some ignorant things, some racist things and just outright stupid things? I for one am absolutely AMAZED!

Fraxxx:
Even IF the the opinions she gives had any substance (which they have not), I can't even imagine how someone can agree with her kindergardenlike way of arguing. Are we really at a point where WHATEVER someone says, no matter how pathetic, gets cheers, if it only is aimed at the political opponent? It's plain sad that such a person even gets a platform for her attention-whoring! ELANO!

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